In one of my first posts, Poor Man's Netflix, I describe my love for checking out DVD's from my local library.
Today, I found an article describing how the OCLC just published a study stating that Americans get more DVDs from Public Libraries compared to Netflix, Redbox or Blockbuster. Reading the study makes me feel all warm inside.
Today, I checked out 2 DVDs - David Lynch's Dune (I feel that today's librarians are the equivalent of Frank Herbert's Mentats) and United States of Tara (Diablo Cody, Stephen Spielberg and Toni Collette? I have high expectations).
Why spend money when you can get it for free? Seriously, why?
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Poor Man's Netflix
Is a future librarian writing on his blog about the things he himself has checked out of the library poetic, ironic or just plan sad?
Anyways - I dig the list feature that blogger offers. Usually when I am on facebook the first thing that I look at are the lists of books, dvds and cds that folks post on their profiles. They're very telling at how people perceive themselves (or at least want to be perceived). What can I say, I'm pretty shallow...
Instead of just copying and pasting what I have posted on my facebook page, and staying true to my obsession with all things bibliographic, I decided to just have a rolling list of things I currently have checked out from Multnomah County Library, a library I have been smitten with ever since I moved to Portland...
Did you know Multnomah Count Library is one of the most patroned libraries in America (second only to Brooklyn, NY)? Not only does that illustrate how amazing our library system is, it's also a kudos to how awesome Portland is. I consider it my poor man's netflix - instead of adding items to my queue, I just request them (usually from my home computer) and as soon as they are available I pick them up from the branch a few blocks from my house. As a graduate student living in poverty, its a pretty sweet deal....
So check my list out, it'll give you an interesting look as to who I am. If you notice it's not alphabetical, rather chronological. I figure that way you'll know what movie, book or cd I am enjoying at the moment...
Anyways - I dig the list feature that blogger offers. Usually when I am on facebook the first thing that I look at are the lists of books, dvds and cds that folks post on their profiles. They're very telling at how people perceive themselves (or at least want to be perceived). What can I say, I'm pretty shallow...
Instead of just copying and pasting what I have posted on my facebook page, and staying true to my obsession with all things bibliographic, I decided to just have a rolling list of things I currently have checked out from Multnomah County Library, a library I have been smitten with ever since I moved to Portland...
Did you know Multnomah Count Library is one of the most patroned libraries in America (second only to Brooklyn, NY)? Not only does that illustrate how amazing our library system is, it's also a kudos to how awesome Portland is. I consider it my poor man's netflix - instead of adding items to my queue, I just request them (usually from my home computer) and as soon as they are available I pick them up from the branch a few blocks from my house. As a graduate student living in poverty, its a pretty sweet deal....
So check my list out, it'll give you an interesting look as to who I am. If you notice it's not alphabetical, rather chronological. I figure that way you'll know what movie, book or cd I am enjoying at the moment...
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